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Packers enjoyed winter weather

Packers enjoyed winter weather By Tom Oates and Perry Hibner Sports reporters GREEN BAY Surely, you remember. The first snowfall of the winter. A knock on the door of your dormitory room. Tackle football. Outside. Ten minutes. Be there. Snow football. That memory was rekindled for many Sunday when the Green Bay Packers beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 21-0, beneath 13 inches of blowing, drifting snow at Lambeau Field. "It was a lot like the sandlot football you play when you're a kid," Packer cornerback Tim Lewis said. "You can't throw snowballs, but you can enjoy it." And enjoy it the Packers did. "I had fun," Green Bay guard Ron Hallstrom said. "You feel like a kid again. You start diving over people and sliding about 15 yards and you get a pile of snow in your face." The Packers said the 30-degree temperatures didn't bother them at all because they had practiced outside all week. "It was unpleasant, but it wasn't that cold," defensive end Ezra Johnson said. "I said to the guys, 'Come on. Let's have some fun.' The only way to stay warm in this kind of weather is to be active and go around and knock the crap out of people." The Bucs, who suffered through one of the worst performances in their history, didn't find it nearly as much fun. In an effort to prepare, they wore scuba gloves all week in practice. To stay warm, they wore plastic bags between layers of socks and mesh instead of cloth jerseys because mesh stays drier. But the cold and snow was still a shock to them. During the game, whoever wasn't on the field was usually huddled around one of the portable Packer notes heaters behind the bench. On the average, 25 of the Bucs surrounded the heater, in stark contrast to the Packer bench, where the heaters were virtually ignored. "Yesterday it was 87 degrees in Tampa," said fullback Adger Armstrong. "I'd rather play in that." Packer fans have seen plenty of snow, but only 19,856 showed up for the game, the smallest crowd ever in Lambeau Field, which was completed in 1957. There were 36,586 no shows. The fans who did show up seemed to handle the weather better than the Bucs. Some made the best of the situation by sliding down the aisles on their rears in the near-vacant end zones. Others found sport in releasing plastic garbage bags, which would zoom over the crowd caught up in the 30 mile-an-hour winds. The shutout was the first for the Packers since Oct. 23, 1977, when they won at Tampa Bay, 13-0, a string of 125 games. That was the first time the Packers played the then -expansion Bucs. James Lofton's first catch of the day was the 450th of his career and moved him past Boyd Dowler into second place on the all-time list of Packer receivers. Lofton has 455 catches and trails all-time leader Don Hutson by 33. Lofton's 100-yard receiving day was the 30th of his career. When Eddie Lee Ivery and Gerry Ellis both went over the 100-yard mark rushing, it was the first time the Packers had done that since Nov. 23, 1980, when Ivery and Ellis did it against the Minnesota Vikings.
Article from 02 Dec 1985Wisconsin State Journal(Madison, WI)
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